Krishna Janmashtami
4 September 2026 · movable holiday — A little higher – the pot is almost within reach!
Janmashtami marks the birth of Krishna, regarded in Hinduism as an incarnation of Vishnu. It falls on the eighth day of the waning moon in the month of Bhadrapada (in the northern calendar; in the southern and western calendar the month is called Shravana), usually in August or September, so the date shifts each year with the lunar calendar. According to tradition, Krishna was born at midnight, and many devotees stay awake until then, singing hymns and praying. Temples recount episodes from his life, and homes and shrines are decorated. In the state of Maharashtra, the custom of dahi handi is well known: young people form a human pyramid to reach a clay pot of butter or curd hung high above. It recalls the legends that the young Krishna loved to steal butter. The festival is tied to the Moon, as its day is set by the lunar phase and its vigil takes place at night.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver star figure made of luminous dots and lines, like a constellation: a tower of young climbers standing on each other's shoulders, moving slowly across the night sky
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